Blog Assignments

On Tuesday, September 16, you will have time to work on your blogs in class. You will also receive instruction on how to make Thinking Maps with Inspiration software. You may use Inspiration, Paint, Word Art or find an online web site to make any Thinking Maps to post as images to your blog.

Below is a list of all of the items that should appear on your blog by Sunday night, September 21. U of M grad students will start reading your blogs soon, so we need to have some posts there for your blog pals to get to know you.

1. A symbol that represents you since you cannot include a photograph of yourself.
2. A list on the side of your blog that includes your favorite books of all time. Include at least five books. You can make this a link list to a book review.
3. Your Hall of Fame paragraph with the school name and your last name removed.
4. Your bubble map paragraph with your last name removed.
5. A discussion of your favorite book of all time. Include an image of the book cover so that I know that you have figured out how to add images to a blog post.
6. Write about something that you have read recently. This is the start of your outside reading assignment. You can write about anything that you have read outside of school work--a magazine article, another novel, a manual for a video game, a cookbook recipe, a poem, a short story, a children's book to the kids that you were babysitting for, whatever. Think of our reading minutes in class. You can write about anything that you are reading outside of school. Just start with the thesis statement like you do for the reading minute, and then tell more details about the reading.
7. Create a double bubble map that compares and contrasts you with a character in Animal Dreams. Post the Thinking Map as an image on a blog post. I want to assess that you have figured out how to make maps on your blog, and I want to assess that you are making any text to self connections with Animal Dreams.